Man About Town (magazine)

Man About Town, later About Town and lastly Town, was an important British men's magazine of the 1950s and 60s. Press Gazette called it the "progenitor of all today's men's style magazines". It was the customer offshoot of the well-established weekly trade magazine for tailors, The Tailor & Cutter.

John Taylor

John Taylor (1921–2003) had been interviewed for the editorship of The Tailor & Cutter in 1945, after being demobilised from the Royal Navy, but did not get the job. After his initial failure, he secured another chance and wore his "Fleet Air Arm uniform with gold pilot wings and lieutenant's rings" and this time he was successful. This lesson in the importance of clothes and style formed a lasting impression on Taylor. He went on to edit that magazine for 24 years and his weekly comments on the dress of celebrities, politicians and royalty attracted international attention and fame, transforming Tailor & Cutter into what The Times called "the most quoted trade magazine in the world".

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world.

Origin and use

The word town shares an origin with the German word Stadt, the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norsetun. The German word Zaun comes closest to the original meaning of the word: a fence of any material. An early borrowing from Celtic *dunom (cf. Old Irish dun, Welsh din "fortress, fortified place, camp," dinas "city;"

In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, more specifically those of the wealthy, which had a high fence or a wall around them (like the garden of palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, which was the example for the privy garden of William and Mary at Hampton Court). In Old Norse tun means a (grassy) place between farmhouses, and is still used in a similar meaning in modern Norwegian.

Although it had been occupied for over ten thousand years by indigenous peoples, from the 18th century onward, European powers considered the territory of Alaska ripe for exploitation and trade. The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.

You Bowed Down

I expect you're entitled to know why I'm making contactWith acquaintances scattered all over the landI'd promise you now and again that I'd honour the contractIf it hadn't crumbled away in my handSo we broke that vow independently nowBut I don't know why you absolutely denyYou bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)When you first looked away I might say it was really a kindnessIt must have hurt you to see how dreams sourNow they say that justice and love are the next things to blindnessWell you're getting plenty of both of them nowAnd so you parade where appointments are madeAnd never meant to be keptUnless you acceptYou bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)You value the burnt amber of falling leavesAnd you long to delayAs you feel their breath as they whisper"It won't hurt you now to betrayIf you just bow down"And now every time that we meet on the edge of hysteriaYou're helping them sell off some new party lineI remember a time when you would have seemed so superiorNow you say "Will you please meet this good friend of mine?"So you're in demand as long as you kiss their handBut all the applause is for their name not yoursYou bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)You bowed downYou bowed downYou bowed down

Man About Town (magazine)

Man About Town, later About Town and lastly Town, was an important British men's magazine of the 1950s and 60s. Press Gazette called it the "progenitor of all today's men's style magazines". It was the customer offshoot of the well-established weekly trade magazine for tailors, The Tailor & Cutter.

John Taylor

John Taylor (1921–2003) had been interviewed for the editorship of The Tailor & Cutter in 1945, after being demobilised from the Royal Navy, but did not get the job. After his initial failure, he secured another chance and wore his "Fleet Air Arm uniform with gold pilot wings and lieutenant's rings" and this time he was successful. This lesson in the importance of clothes and style formed a lasting impression on Taylor. He went on to edit that magazine for 24 years and his weekly comments on the dress of celebrities, politicians and royalty attracted international attention and fame, transforming Tailor & Cutter into what The Times called "the most quoted trade magazine in the world".

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